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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Wednesday Web Browser: Revisiting Raymond Carver, Two Poems by Gerald Stern, and An Essay on J.M. Coetzee

The "Winter Fiction" issue of the New Yorker arrived this week, and it includes some trulyamazing items relating to Raymond Carver and his relationship with his editor, Gordon Lish. But the most extraordinary document has to be the online-only text demonstrating Lish's edits of the story most of us know (and revere) as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." Carver, it seems, had a different vision for that story.==========Yesterday Nextbook featured two poems by Gerald Stern.==========One book I'm really looking forward to reading in the New Year is J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year. In the meantime, Rachel Donadio's essay in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review will suffice.

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About Me

Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.

Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.